NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

the fine and continue following the learned
behaviors.
As safety professionals we can focus on
training and show the workers the standards.
We can tell the workers how to raise a
scaffold, how to become a competent person.
Also we can explain and educate workers on the
proper method for trenching an excavation. We
can continue spending time and efforts in
teaching the 1926 and the 1910 standards. We
can spend hours and hours dedicated to let them
know that whenever we work in areas with
potential for falls, are six feets or higher or
four feet in general industries, we need some
kind of fall protection system. As a matter of
fact, yesterday we were teaching a competent
person course in a pharmaceutical plant. And we
went out to the field and looked for some
scaffolds that had been erected and so applied
by a competent person. And we were surprised
the amount of issues that we were able to
identified, because they were not really
following the proper standards.
However, there is one thing that really
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